gonna get these printed as business cards that i can scatter when someone talks to me about Sherlock, just as i disappear in my cloud of smoke
Yeah they have a long-term strategy, Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat. They- they plan it out for years. So they’re um, they don’t just come up with the ideas quickly and go, “Oh! We’ll do this.” They knew, I think, really, from series 1 -and 2-, they planned the whole series out.
Actors/writers Ian Hallard and Mark Gatiss by Felix Clay
‘We met online – back when that was odd’ … Mark Gatiss and his husband, Ian Hallard, star in a play about a gay party that turns toxic. They spoke about new threats to equal rights, the Sherlock backlash – and their dog-sitting issues.
“He believes a Sherlock backlash was inevitable – a “familiar pattern” with anything so successful. “We toyed with calling one of the episodes Backlash, because it’s time.” He points out that the third series of The League of Gentlemen, “though now regarded as a classic, was very controversial. A lot of people hated it.”
There hadn’t been any intention to go off piste with Sherlock, he insists. “It goes for any artistic endeavour – all you can do is your best. Sometimes you have to have an unpleasant amount of attention. But I’m stopped in the street two or three times a day by people saying how much they’ve enjoyed it. What more could you want?””
S4 wasn’t clever. It was bad. A super-secret sister wasn’t a huge plot twist, people guessed it ages ago.
And listen, I don’t give two fucks about how they’re “the lying liars that lie” and they’re supposedly hiding big plot secrets. If your show doesn’t make sense & is no fun to watch, then all the subtext in the world doesn’t mean shit.
If I’m gunna compare it to a show like Hannibal, clever, full of twists (some over the top) but still so well written & entertaining up until the end. And the whole cast & crew are such a delight to their fans. That’s how you do it.
To blame the fans for your half-assed writting & saying people just wanted to bring it down because it got big is such cry-baby bullshit. Someone get Mark his bottle & blankie.
I was rooting so hard for BBC Sherlock & Mofftiss’ heads got too big & they let a whole fandom down. It’s very telling that fandom & casuals alike hated S4.
So don’t tell me I’m not entitled to my salt. I gave this mess my heart & TPTB can kiss my salty ass for returning my loyalty & fandom with the steaming pile of S4. And YES they do owe us, the fans, decent TV. We’re the ones paying for their crap to keep it on the air.
I bow to your genius and eloquence, @yorkiepug! “To blame the fans for your half-assed writting & saying people just wanted to bring it down because it got big is such cry-baby bullshit. Someone get Mark his bottle & blankie.” This is so perfect! I nominate you for fandom salt leader!
You’re really too kind. I’m just saying what I think/feel and whomever can either agree or disagree.
I’m not going to hide or pretend I’m not pissed. Seriously if folks wanna keep on believing and loving Mofftiss, that’s fine by me. But I’m mad as hell and I’m not quiet about it.
“I wrote it in two hours.” – Mark Gatiss
The best part is where he didn’t believe that the ratings for TFP were low. 😂 that’s some real deep “fake news” type bullshit justifying.
@yorkiepug I *try* not to personally post too much salt here (it’s hard) but fuck yeah did I agree with everything you wrote.
We had the wonderful opportunity of interviewing Yasmine Akram, Janine from The Sign of Three, The Last Vow and The Abominable Bride. So many questions were asked! Including: The kiss! What happened behind the bathroom door? Is Janine, Moriarty’s sister? Along with a Wedding full of giggles! She takes us behind the scenes and speaks of the great talents involved in making Sherlock.
“We will recreate our glory days back when everyone loved us.” So, a Dallas style ‘it was all a dream’ retcon to erase S4 confirmed or…?
When they say it’s “in London” it wouldn’t appear to be filming, which mostly happens in Wales with some exceptions for exteriors…
I hope it’s that the master tapes of S4 fell in the Thames and can’t even be saved by bedsharing to conserve body heat.
Dear god above
As soon as you strip [the trappings] away, its exactly the same, except it’s now. Then the focus immediately falls onto the eternal brilliance of Doctor Watson and Sherlock Holmes and their characters and their friendship.
I can’t think of one time, but I do… as a kid I was ill, I was small , my parents where divorced, I was the youngest of five.
You know, I don’t wanna paint myself as a Dickens victim, but I was not an Alpha male.
So you have to find other ways to, you know, succeedig I guess. I wasn’t able to beat anyone up at the playground, but I could make people laugh.
And I found that you can… you can get through in other ways. I was in and out of hospital for various things as a kid an I do think it really strenghtened me.
You know, I wouldn’t wish hospital on any child, but when things are difficult, when things aren’t ideal… well the old saying “ what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is very, very true and I think… I dunno wether those things mean… that means I’m successful.
I knew that life wasn’t going to… Even I’ve been lucky, but I knew that life just wasn’t going to give me a free path and everything was gonna fall into my lap. You have to work, but you have to also be sensitive and open and just recognize opportunities and things and people. And which people are good for you and which aren’t good for you.
But I know I always felt that I was a little kid with a dodgy leg and dodgy teeth and my parents where divorced – which wasn’t very common in an English Catholic school .
I kind of… I quite liked beeing a bit outside of all, I quite enjoyed that and I think that might have helped.
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Note: I’m not quite sure about some parts of that answer but I did my best to write down what Martin said 🙂
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